Senior Product Designer

Medium is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own product design projects from ideation through launch, shaping features and polished designs for its reading and writing platform. The role collaborates with engineers and designers, conducts user research, uses AI design tools, and contributes to the product’s design system.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with engineers and designers to scope and define features that advance your team’s goals
• Own and execute high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to enable your team to build the best experiences for our users
• Leverage AI design tools and workflows effectively to create artifacts that explore and validate new ideas, features, and interactions
• Contribute to our design system to ensure a cohesive and scalable visual language across the product
• Conduct user research to uncover pain points and opportunities, using insights to inform design decisions
• Represent the design team by upholding a high design bar, working with your teammates to make thoughtful, intentional decisions at every step

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience designing products in a fast-paced environment working closely with engineering, design, and product teammates
• A portfolio with presentable case studies of your best work, showcasing a foundation in typography, interaction and visual design, and idea generation for work you've shipped
• An understanding of design systems, including an understanding of how to apply them well and contribute back to them
• A learning and growth mindset
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills
• Experience or a passion for working on reading and writing tools, platforms, or experiences